670 Episodes

  1. How much is the Coronation crown worth?

    Published: 29/04/2023
  2. The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News

    Published: 22/04/2023
  3. How accurate is baby's due date?

    Published: 15/04/2023
  4. How to better understand and explain numbers

    Published: 8/04/2023
  5. A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?

    Published: 1/04/2023
  6. Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage

    Published: 25/03/2023
  7. Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

    Published: 18/03/2023
  8. Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

    Published: 11/03/2023
  9. Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?

    Published: 4/03/2023
  10. UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?

    Published: 1/03/2023
  11. Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

    Published: 25/02/2023
  12. Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

    Published: 22/02/2023
  13. Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

    Published: 18/02/2023
  14. Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

    Published: 15/02/2023
  15. Spreadsheet disasters

    Published: 11/02/2023
  16. The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

    Published: 8/02/2023
  17. Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

    Published: 4/02/2023
  18. Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

    Published: 1/02/2023
  19. Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

    Published: 28/01/2023
  20. Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

    Published: 25/01/2023

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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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